www.fastcompany.com/91140561/chewing-gum-for-jawline-tiktok
Male influencers and gum companies like Rockjaw and Iron Bite are telling viewers that chewing tough gum can sharpen their bone structure. But the science is murky at best.
đź’˛ Consumer ProtectionEveryone knows chewing gum can't make your bones denser. That's crazy talk. Chewing tobacco on the other hand-well, that'll make you a goddamned sexual tyrannosaurus.
Isn’t that kinda frustrating? To be a sexual tyrannosaurus means all drive and no hands or reach to make it happen.
If I’m gonna be an overly sexual creature it’ll have to be… dolphins. :p
Lol dolphins have even less hands!
But they have fish
Everyone else in this thread is a slack jawed... Well, you know
I ain't got time to bleed chew hard gum
Women love the constant spitting. A real turn-on.
Chewing builds jaw muscle strength. That's how muscles work.
Will it actually change the way your face looks in any noticeable way? Very Unlikely.
Jaw muscles don't really get that much stronger and even if they did, would you really want that. We put our teeth under enough stress as it is. Every time I have a patient with big strong jaw muscles (likely from parafunction), they have ground their teeth down to nubs.
This is basically a modern version of the Charles Atlas ads that used to be in comic books.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fdsleohvh84v21.jpg
I got that Michael Cera chin when people want that John Cena jawline.
I used to grind my back teeth and eventually had them removed which changed my jawline. It also made my TMJ way worse because I lost a lot of my bite strength. Now I do a bunch of jaw stretching exercises because it reduces my tinnitus. Remember kids, use hearing protection when you go to shows. Also, getting older sucks.
Most people in like 95% of the cases, are fine with whatever jawline they were born with. I find posture helps a lot too. I slouch way too much.
Good to know. I will consider blending my steak now.
I mean, you would have to apply the same principles as in body building - range of motion and progressive overload and just like with any muscle it will grow. Chewing rubber balls won't be optimal, you'd probably have to hang weights from your open jaw and then close it shut. The opposite movement might be really hard to train - opening your mouth, you'd have to push a weight down with your chin.
There’s no reason to strengthen the muscle that opens the jaw. Its so pathetically tiny, it’d never be noticeable and I highly doubt the extra strength is ever gonna be necessary.
That said, lie flat on the ground head tilted up so your chin is on the ground too. Now do push-ups by opening your mouth.
Hence the secret of alligator wrestling, hold its jaw closed
It absolutely can change your face shape. However, you'd basically have to give yourself TMJ to make a noticeable difference.
I am skeptical. I would need to see before and after.
You can see it happen in reverse, sort of. People who are chronic grinders end up with TMJ and bulky jaw muscles. Botox can alleviate TMJ pain and also reduce the size of the masseter muscle to restore the "normal" face shape.
I'm impressed. Good evidence! There's definitely a noticeable difference when shown in reverse.
But it would hard for a gum to be as effective as years of stress and subconscious jaw activity. I am still going to stick with my original hypothesis that the gum would have no noticeable impact on looks.
Intel shit this is. Who actually talks about bone structure. Fucking weirdos
Phrenologists!
Intel shit this is.
Right. This is why all my CPUs are AMD.
It's just the latest marketing of consumer crap that doesn't work to insecure men, promising it will make them look better, be more attractive to the opposite sex, make them more sexually virile, etc.
You sound like you need a pill to up your testosterone. For reasons.
Blowjobs…that’s what you need to do to get that chiseled jawline you’re looking for, guys. It’s not gay if you’re working on your jawline!
I remember some woman in Japan who promoted facial exercises to make one's face look younger. One of the exercises was inflate and deflate a 500ml plastic pop bottle with your mouth. She would work her jawline on TV constantly. I always wondered if she fainted while doing her demonstrations and disappeared from public appearances.
Am I the only person who remembers the ABC Saturday morning interstitial where the Fonzie clone, The Chopper, advises you to exercise your chompers?
The bigger the better the tighter the sweater.
I visited Rockjaw, I get the scam.
Target this product to teenagers and in just a year of chewing... your face will have further masculinized because your skeleton keeps changing until like 23.
Kids see 28 year olds playing highschoolers and think they are supposed to look like that in 10th grade.
I don't know anything about these products, but is is true that humans evolved to use their jaws much more than our current soft diet requires us to. Most anthropologists state that pre agricultural humans had extremely straight teeth and few of the teeth crowding problems that are common today.
Smithsonian magazine link on the subject https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-dawn-farming-changed-our-mouths-worst-180954167/
I think for that argument to work you would have to chew it at a much younger age as your teeth are coming in. Obviously I am not an orthodontist, just my guess.
Yeah it would be very interesting to see a study where children grow up exercising their jaws, and you compare them to those that didnt
Chewing gum excessively will damage your teeth by wearing down the enamel.
Nothing to worry about there. I have no enamel left.
People will do anything but grow a genuine likable personality to get laid.
Has anyone on this sub done a thread on "mewing"? It's kind of an interesting subject.
Is it just me or are younger millennials and genz just using whatever marketing they think up whether it's true or not and seeing if it sticks regardless of facts or science in the name of profit?
Snake oil ain't new, especially not the male virility kind.
You must've missed the entire "as seen on TV" craze that got the boomers.
Honestly, it's an amazing sales pitch. Jaw dysmorphia sounds like a great way to target male body image.
So was Bazooka way ahead of the curve?
On the other hand, I hear that chewing gum is the only cure for earworms.
As someone who chews a lot of gum, it will make the muscles on your temple much larger making your head wider. I am not sure if that is a good thing...
this seems another version of Mewing
“Mewing is a face-reconstructing technique that involves keeping your tongue on the roof of your mouth to change your jawline's shape. 1. Some supporters have claimed that mewing can reshape your face for a more defined jawline, helping with jaw pain, breathing, or orthodontic issues.”
& no I’m not endorsing, never tried it
Sure, and eating hair will cure your baldness. (I promised myself I wouldn't say the word "idiot".)
are you telling me that mewing doesn't work???
While it is true that chewing tough things firms up your lower mandible. People who lose their teeth, their mandible atrophies to a thin little stick. But what you're more likely to do is give yourself TMJ. Really all you need to do to anchor your teeth to your mandible is keep your teeth touching when your mouth is closed when you're not talking. And I mean lightly touching not like grinding your teeth. Don't grind your teeth that's bad.
This is probably stupid for the average person, but if you have a really weak jaw, you might be tempted to try to make up a little little bit of ground.
What about incredibly weak moral character?
For that you have chew gum and walk at the same time.
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Anything but eating vegetables